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Mayer (name)
Mayer is a common German surname and less frequent as a given name. Notable people with the name include:
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- Adolf Mayer (1843–1942), a German-Dutch virologist
- Albrecht Mayer (born 1965), German classical oboist
- Alfred G. Mayer (1868–1922), German-American cnidariologist and entomologist
- Alfred M. Mayer (1836–1897), American physicist
- Arno J. Mayer (1926–2023), Luxembourgish historian
- Arthur Mayer (1886–1981), film producer and distributor who worked with Joseph Burstyn
- Auguste Étienne François Mayer (1805–1890), French naval painter
- Ben Mayer (1925–2000), amateur astronomer
- Bernadette Mayer (1945–2022), American poet and author
- Brantz Mayer (1809–1879), American writer
- Carl Mayer (1894–1944), Austrian-German screenwriter
- Charles Mayer (disambiguation)
- Christa Mayer, German mezzo-soprano
- Christa C. Mayer Thurman (born 1934), German-born American curator, art historian
- Christian Mayer (astronomer) (1719–1783), Czech astronomer
- Christian Mayer (skier) (born 1972), Austrian skier
- Christian Mayer (Wisconsin politician) (1827–1910), American politician
- Christian Gustav Adolph Mayer (1839–1907), German mathematician
- Christopher Mayer (American actor) (1954–2011), American actor
- Christopher Mayer (Australian actor) (born 1961), Australian actor
- Constant Mayer (1829–1911), French-born American painter
- Daisy von Scherler Mayer (born 1965), American film director
- Daniel Mayer (1909–1996), French politician
- Daniel Mayer (impresario) (1856–1928), German-born English agent and mayor
- David R. Mayer (born 1967), American politician
- Delia Mayer (born 1967), Swiss actress and singer
- Eckehard Mayer (born 1946), German classical composer and author
- Edelmiro Mayer (1834–1897), Argentine soldier and statesman
- Edwin Justus Mayer (1896–1960), American screenwriter
- Elizabeth Mayer (1884–1970), German-American translator and writer
- Else Mayer (1891–1962), German nun and women's liberation activist
- Emilie Mayer (1812–1883) German composer of Romantic music
- Erskine Mayer (1887–1957), American major league baseball player
- Florian Mayer (born 1983), German tennis player
- Francis Blackwell Mayer (1827–1899), United States painter
- Frank Mayer (1902–1960), American football player
- Fred Mayer (photographer) (1933–2021), Swiss photographer
- Fred Shaw Mayer (1899–1989), Australian zoological collector and aviculturist
- Frederick Mayer (1921–2006), German educational scientist
- Frederick Mayer (spy) (1921–2016), American spy during World War II
- Gene Mayer (born 1956), American former tennis player
- Gerhard Mayer (born 1980), Austrian discus thrower
- Gustav Mayer (1871–1948), German journalist and historian
- Hans Ferdinand Mayer (1895–1980), German mathematician and physicist, and author of the Oslo Report
- Hans-Peter Mayer (born 1944), German politician
- Helen Mayer (1932–2008), Australian politician
- Helene Mayer (1910–53), German and American Olympic champion foil fencer
- Henry "Hy" Mayer (1868–1954), German-American animator
- Irene Mayer Selznick (1907–1990), born Irene Gladys Mayer, American theatrical producer and daughter of MGM studio founder Louis B. Mayer
- Jacob Erskine Mayer (1889–1957), American baseball player
- Jacquelyn Mayer (born 1942), American beauty contest winner and motivational speaker
- Jane Mayer (born 1955), American investigative journalist
- Jean Mayer (1920–1993), French-American nutritionist and tenth president of Tufts University
- Jean-François Mayer (born 1957), Swiss historian of religions
- Jim Mayer (ice hockey) (born 1954), Canadian ice hockey player
- Jim Mayer (musician), American musician
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (agriculturist) (1719–1798), German agriculturist
- Johann Friedrich Mayer (theologian) (1650–1712), German theologian
- Johann Tobias Mayer (1752–1830), German physicist
- John Mayer (born 1977), American singer and songwriter
- John Mayer (composer) (1930–2004), Indian composer
- John D. Mayer, American psychologist
- Jojo Mayer (born 1963), Swiss drummer
- Jorge Mayer (1915–2010), Argentine priest, Archbishop of Bahía Blanca
- José Mayer, Brazilian actor
- Joseph Edward Mayer (1904–1983), American chemist and physicist, married to Maria Goeppert-Mayer
- Karl Ulrich Mayer (born 1945), German sociologist
- Karla Mayer (born 1918, disappeared 1944), guard at three Nazi death camps
- Karoly Mayer (1908–2000), Hungarian footballer
- Klaus Mayer (1923-2022), German Roman-catholic priest and author
- Lauren Etame Mayer (born 1977), Cameroonian footballer
- Leonardo Mayer (born 1987), Argentine tennis player
- Leopold Mayer (died 1914), German swimmer
- Levy Mayer (1858–1922), American lawyer
- Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957), MGM studio mogul
- Lucas Mayer (disambiguation), several people
- Marcel Mayer, a French artist whose work includes sculpture, painting and engraving
- Marissa Mayer (born 1975), CEO of Yahoo!
- Martin Mayer (1928–2019), American nonfiction author
- Matías Mayer (born 1996), Argentine footballer
- Matthias Mayer (born 1990), Austrian retired alpine skier
- Mercer Mayer (born 1943), American children's book author and illustrator
- Michael Mayer (disambiguation), multiple people
- Mónica Mayer (born 1954), Mexican artist, activist and art critic
- Nathaniel Mayer (1944–2008), American rhythm-and-blues singer
- Norman Mayer (1916–1982), American anti-nuclear activist
- Oscar F. Mayer (1859–1955), founder of the Oscar Mayer Company
- Paul Augustin Mayer OSB (1911–2010), German cardinal
- Paul Avila Mayer (1928–2009), American television writer and producer
- Peter Mayer (1936–2018), American publisher
- Philip Frederick Mayer (1781–1858), United States Lutheran clergyman
- René Mayer (1895–1972), French politician
- Richard J. Mayer (born 1952), American engineer
- Robert Mayer (disambiguation), several people
- Rupert Mayer (1876–1945), Jesuit priest and leading figure of the Catholic Nazi resistance
- Sandy Mayer (born 1952), American former tennis player
- Sarah Mayer (1896–1957), British judoka
- Scott Mayer (bishop) (born 1955), American bishop
- Scott Mayer (racing driver) (born 1964), American race car driver
- Selma Mayer (1884–1984), known as Schwester Selma, German-Jewish head nurse at the original Shaare Zedek Hospital, Jerusalem
- Sergio Mayer (born 1966) Mexican actor and singer
- Sheldon Mayer (1917–1991), American cartoonist and editor
- Siegmund Mayer (1842–1910), German physiologist
- Stepanka Mayer (born 1949), Czech and German chess player
- Stephan Mayer (born 1973), German politician
- Stephen F. Mayer (1854–1935), American politician
- Teddy Mayer (1935–2009), American racecar driver and brother of Timmy
- Thomas Mayer (American economist) (1927–2015), Neo-Keynesian economist
- Thomas Mayer (German economist) (born 1954), Deutsche Bank executive
- Tim Mayer (born 1966), son of Teddy and racecar executive
- Timmy Mayer (1938–1964), American racecar driver
- Tobias Mayer (1723–1762), German astronomer
- Victor Mayer (1857–1946), German jeweler
- Victoria Mayer (born 2001), Argentine volleyball player
- Walther Mayer (1887–1948), Austrian mathematician
- Wilhelm Mayer (composer) (1831–1898), Bohemian-Austrian composer and teacher
- Wilhelm Mayer (fighter pilot) (1917–1945), German Luftwaffe ace
- William Mayer (composer) (1925-2017), American composer
- William Daniel Mayer (born 1940), American politician
- Youngmi Mayer, American comedian
Modified surname edit
- de Mayer
- Nicholas De Mayer (c. 1631–1695), ninth mayor of New York City
- von Mayer
- Julius Robert von Mayer (1814–1878), German physician and physicist who made significant contributions to early thermodynamics
Variation on surname edit
- Mike-Mayer (surname)
- Maria Goeppert-Mayer (1906–1972), German-American physicist, married to Joseph Edward Mayer
- Heidrun Mohr-Mayer (1941–2014), German jeweler
- Herbert Mohr-Mayer (born 1933), German jeweler
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A first or second Hebrew name, an alternative spelling of Meir:
- Hermann Mayer Salomon Goldschmidt
- Mayer Lambert (1863–1930), French orientalist
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild family
- Baron Mayer Amschel de Rothschild
- Carl Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Naples
- David Mayer de Rothschild
- James Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of France
- Mayer Alphonse James Rothschild
- Mayer Amschel Rothschild
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of England
- Nathan Mayer Rothschild, 1st Baron Rothschild
- Salomon Mayer von Rothschild, founder of the Rothschild banking family of Austria
- Isaac Mayer Wise
- Mayer Hawthorne (born 1979), stage name of American rap singer
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